Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/15

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Eggleston
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:02:38 -0800

At 10:37 AM 2/15/00 -0500, Tina Manley wrote:
>
>I was not referring to Eggleston in particular, but to all of those 
>photographs that I see in galleries and ask "Why?"
>But since you mention Eggleston, go to this site:
>http://www.masters-of-photography.com/E/eggleston/eggleston_greenville.html
>And explain to me why he even bothered to print this.  I guess it is almost 
>scary to me that if I were editing my photos and came across one like this, 
>I would file it in the round file!
>
>Tina Manley, ASMP

You hit the nail on the head, Tina!!!

Putting film in the camera was his first mistake.

It went downhill from there.

Jim